The NFL Combine and SDSU's Pro Day are both over. With the 2013 NFL Draft less than a month away -- April 25 -- here's ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr.'s latest assessment of where Aztecs' tight end Gavin Escobar and cornerback Leon McFadden might go in the draft.

Escobar has been rising up draft boards ever since he declared that he would forgo his senior season to come out for the draft.

Escobar has drawn comparisons to Broncos' tight end Jacob Tamme, and is generally considered the third or fourth-best tight end in this year's draft class.

In a recent ESPN Insider post, Kiper also identified Escobar as one of the 10 biggest risers in this year's draft class, with the term "riser" defined as guys whose overall value has spiked the most since January.

"It's a tight-end crazy league, and outside of Tyler Eifert, nobody in the draft class has a better set of hands than Escobar. He'll look like a power forward splitting the seam, and where I once saw a mid-round sleeper, I now see a safe bet for Round 2," Kiper wrote.

Wednesday morning, while on a conference call with reporters, he reinforced that assesment.

"Escobar is an interesting guy. I've liked him," Kiper said. "Look at his skillset. He's a 6-foot-6, 254-pound guy. Ideally he runs well and plays fast, and I think he's in the late-second to early-third round discussions."

Kiper theorized that San Francisco, Seattle and Tampa Bay are all possible landing spots for Escobar.

As for Aztecs' cornerback Leon McFadden, Kiper predicts there will likely be a run on cornerbacks in the third round, and that the 5-foot-10, 193-pound McFadden will probably be snapped up late in the third round or early in the fourth round.